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Walter Norris was an excellent pianist, a virtuoso whose improvisations could possibly be both highly complex harmonically yet often remain melodic. He’d have already been better known within the U.S. if he previously not spent therefore enough time in Germany. Norris caused Howard Williams in Arkansas (1944-1950) as an adolescent, …

Among the primary figures within the development of Krautrock, Conrad Schnitzler made important efforts to the first background of Tangerine Desire and Kluster. Like many within the Krautrock community, Schnitzler was significantly inspired by affects within the visible artistic world along with the musical; he analyzed sculpture with Joseph Beuys, …

A German heavy-psych outfit based away of Berlin, Suns of Thyme hire a heady mixture of space rock and roll, bluesy prog-rock, shoegaze, and post-punk. Citing an array of influences including Hawkwind, Velvet Underground, Sisters of Mercy, Flaming Lip area, Pink Floyd, as well as the Remedy, the band created …

Arriving together in 2011, Prag is certainly a Berlin-based pop group offering the talents of actress Nora Tschirner. Also including vocalist and guitarist Erik Lautenschläger (of Erik & Me) and guitarist Tom Krimi, the music group made its record debut in 2013 with Premiere, that was released through Tynská.

Automat certainly are a hypnotic groove trio of veteran German music artists who weave collectively noirish, jazzy funk, neo-psych, and pulsing post-Krautrock. Guitarist/electronicist Jochen Arbeit (ex-Die Haut and Einstürzende Neubauten), bassist/radio play maker zeitblom (Sovetskoe Foto), and in-demand program drummer/programmer Achim Färber (Task Pitchfork, Phillip Boa) started informally playing jointly …